Importance of Quality Assurrance in Manufacturing

Quality assurrance is the process of using systems and methodologies that ensure that the manufactured products meet the required quality standards consistently. The aim of QA is to produce goods right at the first time, without any rework. Organizations, usually, have a separate department to assure the quality of their products. For this they may also use the services of the consultants.

QA is crucial for the manufacturing industry. With so much competition and such few margins, no manufacturing industry can afford to spend time and money on rework. Every activity in the industry costs money and so does rework, but customers do not pay for rework. Customers pay for the value addition by the company and if they see more valuable additions by some other company being offered at same or lower costs, they move to that company. Hence to assure good quality to customers, quality assurrance plays a significant role.

Benefits of Quality Assurrance
Some of the benefits the organization derives from this role are:

• Improve Quality

QA professionals are involved in all critical activities of the organizations like design, manufacturing, material procurement, packaging, logistics etc. Since all the processes are being tracked and monitored properly, there are fewer chances of bad quality or non-compliance of products with respect to the requirements. These requirements could be standard requirements, customer requirements, or even legal requirements.

• Low Cost

It reduces the overall costs to the organization. When the product is right the first time, there are no rework costs, no wastage of material, no wastage of manpower, and no disruptions in the production process. There are fewer claims for warranties and guaranties. In short, the cost of poor quality goes down. All this reduces the operating costs of the organizations and hence results in increased operating profits.

• Reputation

Since the organizations are able to manufacture good quality products that are made according to the requirements of the customers, the market reputation of those organizations improves. This helps the organizations to retain the existing customers and get more business from them. At the same time this also helps them in attracting new customers. These in turn increase the revenue and profit of the organizations.

• Reduce Execution Time

The systems implemented to improve quality reduce the cycle time i.e. time taken for the execution of the orders. If the quality of products is bad then there will be more customer complaints and more production downtime. This results in huge loss of time and resources. Hence, if QA systems are implemented properly in the organization, the order execution time automatically gets reduced.

• Compliance To Standards

It ensures that the organizations meet all the standards and guidelines required for different quality management systems like ISO and other quality certifications awarded to it.

In short, to meet customer requirements effectively and consistently, it is very important for every manufacturing industry to have a QA department. This will ensure that the efforts and processes are moving in right direction so that the end product not only meets but exceeds the customers expectations.

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